Shirley M. Tilghman

News about Shirley M. Tilghman, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 22, 2013

Princeton University announces that Christopher L Eisgruber, who has been the university's provost for nine years, will be its next president; Eisgruber is replacing Shirley M Tilghman, who became the second woman to lead an Ivy League university in 2001. MORE

Sep. 23, 2012

Princeton University president Shirley M Tilghman announces she will step down in June 2013; she will remain on the faculty. MORE

Questions for Bush DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, author of a forthcoming history of Abraham Lincoln's White House: History suggests our best presidents acknowledge error, learn from mistakes, grow in the job. Lincoln readily conceded a number of...

When the January issue of Princeton's conservative student magazine, The Princeton Tory, criticized Dr. Shirley Tilghman's ''maternalistic'' policies for reshaping campus life, it was the latest round in a battle over which values will prevail at the...